Institutions Research

New line cinema was founded in 1967. It produced the Oscar Award winning The lord of the rings film trilogy. The studio is credited with revitalising the genre of R-rated comedy. Successes of the genre was Wedding Crashers and more recently, Horrible bosses. New line is one of the few film companies that still works in the horror genre being widely known for A Nightmare on Elm Street and Final destination Franchises.
New line cinema most successful films are The mask, Hairspray, Rush Hour, Elf, Sex in the city and the Austin Powerstitles.
New line became a unit of Warner Bros in March 2008. They maintain separate development, marketing, production, and distribution but coordinates with Warner Bros to maximise film performance.

New line's 2014 releases include Tammy, Into the storm, Horrible bosses 2 and The Hobbit: The battle of five armies, the final film in Peter Jackson's The hobbit trilogy.

 I looked at Legendary Pictures as well, it is a company that co-produces and co-finances with Warner Bros. In 2011, the company introduced the creation of Legendary Television to focus on developing TV programmes. Legendary Pictures have produced 34 feature films. 

• Batman begins
• Superman returns
• Godzilla
• Watchmen - Paramount was a distributor as well as Warner Bros.
• Inception
• Man of steel
• Intersellar - the most recent film